Entries by Ariella Cohen | Next City
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When Does Street Violence Become Domestic Terrorism?
Why don’t we call it terror when innocent people are caught in gunfire in public?
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THE HUMAN CITY: Seven Questions for Mathieu Lefevre
For three days in June, 1,000 of the world’s foremost urban thinkers, designers, innovators and decision-makers will gather in São Paulo, Brazil for the second annual New Cities Summit.
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We’re Fixated on the Tsarnaevs, But Day-to-Day Urban Violence Is the Bigger Killer
As journalists continue to scrutinize the lives of the Tsarnaev brothers in search of answers to the Boston Marathon bombings, other troubled young men are picking up guns and killing one another in cities across the country. A hierarchy of death has rendered these lives invisible.
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INTERVIEW: Snøhetta’s Craig Dykers on Sheepdog Design and Temple’s New Library
Craig Dykers, principal for the architectural firm Snøhetta, talks about a forthcoming library for Temple University in Philadelphia, how spaces can be generous and why he views design as something akin to a sheepdog.
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INTERVIEW: Four Questions for ‘My Brooklyn’ Producer Allison Lirish Dean
Talking to the urban planner who made a film about a city-backed effort to redevelop a commercially viable slice of black Brooklyn.
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Have the Best Summer Ever as a Next City Intern
Next City is seeking interns for the summer season.
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Urban Influencers: Six Women Making Things Happen in Cities
In honor of International Women’s Day, we offer a roundup of six powerful women reshaping urban policy and practice today.
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Flight of the Hipsters
Why we should be troubled by New York Times’ “Hipsturbia.”
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VIDEO: Cairo’s Urban Revolution
On the two-year anniversary of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, we look at how Cairo’s cityscape is evolving.
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SLIDESHOW: A Snow Day in Detroit
Next City puts on its mittens and checks out some public art in Detroit.
